Picture-frame



STEVENS. Picture-Frame.

No. 223,613. Patented Jan. 13, 18.80.

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NJETERSy PHOTO-LVI HOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES VPATENT OFFICE.

MARCUS STEVENS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,613, dated January 13, 1880. Application led May 24, 1879.

To all whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, MARCUS STEVENS, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Picture-Frames, of which the following is a specication.

The nature of my invention relates to improvements in the construction of picture` frames, whereby one of the members of said frame is made by the art of upholstery in any desired color, to give tone to the picture, or to correspond to the general colors of the furniture 0f the apartment. 1

The invention consists in the construction of a picture-frame of any desired shape or size, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure lis a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a section on the line tv .r in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a section on the line y y.

y In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specication, is shown a rectangular frame, consisting of the outer member, A, and the inner member, B, which are constructed in the usual manner, and may be gilt, or finished in any desired style or coloring,

which should form a contrast to the center member, C, which is made by the usual process 0f upholstering, and covered with satin or other textile fabric, which may be shirred, plaited, puffed, or plain, as taste may dictate, 3o

spond generally to the coloring of the furniture 3 5 in the apartment.

These frames may be rectangular, round, oval, or any other desired form.- What I claim as my invention is As a new article of manufacture, a wooden 4o picture-frame with an angular face, and having the angle lled with the raised padded portion C between the outer and inner wood moldings, A B, substantially as described and shown.

` MARCUS STEVENS.

Witnesses:

THEO. S. DAY, CEAS. THUEMAN. 

